ObDatamation
Then he turned with a snarl,
And he said with a taunt,
"It's just what I asked for,
But not what I want!"
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
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Subject: Re: Developers say Google's Go is 'most sought after' programming
language of 2020
Thanks, now my head is going to explode :)
Maybe one day it'll be like Star Trek where we get to tell the computer
to create the program for us, like a designer would describe general
specs to a programmer today, then go through an evaluation and
corrections without ever seeing any actual code.
Now I'm reminded of an episode ending that always bothers me, TNG Hollow
Pursuits:
"Computer. End programming. Erase all programs filed under Reginald
Barclay."
<Barclay slowly walks toward the holodeck exit, then stops>
"Except program nine"
Hey! It's too late. You already deleted ALL the programs.
On 5/9/2020 9:47 PM, David Crayford wrote:
> On 2020-05-10 11:33 AM, Tom Brennan wrote:
>> When will it all settle down to just one programming language?? Ha - I
>> know, never.
>
> Never! The new kid on the dynamic language block is Julia
> https://secure-web.cisco.com/17DMNzgpSIfLQHbMjH3uRRQ5nAKfJNBLRwOuXAAEQgE7ob2mnKwylz4zyfp_c4i18PdAGZwX672iC_D2qOs3NUrvBmrMCYcjn1uiMRdAK5j1vsrk4YJNlUK3PZaqO-5FXio_5Gd6EhPuobXZKliSYJX0BekiPOPWMM8rHaiKZG8drurSWR_zEUDjHAW7uZ4vAlKU8V0J507bslkNOCMleYxIEvsV5wRro1GOlR9GEZ4OjeJPmBS7LtPPU74foo8j9YoM8nzeAtWD0oFdd8zo_veMoVEah9K7Fr3LOdhRhmWLEEGJesrUJ16_VWwYeWeygeYpWwzKcJg2AfpzMjRMVY35HoLnQ-CgaZbihUfokxbwEXhRbyYoDmt7FhvWw19chyjNn0-TbJhsofIHynRNOU_ysjEtq1ZDq6XuO92k_VbEPt-_sY0a7fey-ic3jaojGE1n52nafm-giyZtyJ3QUmw/https%3A%2F%2Fjulialang.org%2F.
>
> It's a very well designed language that feels a lot like Lua. Because of
> the great design it's possible to write a tracing JIT that produces code
> that runs as fast as C. Parallelism is baked in too. It's becoming very
> popular in the data science community and is likely to eat into Python
> pretty quickly.
>
> The reason new languages keep appearing is because the ones we have now
> are not that great.
>
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